--- a/tests/test-encode	Wed Feb 13 23:49:57 2008 +0100
+++ b/tests/test-encode	Sat Feb 09 13:05:22 2008 -0500
@@ -32,3 +32,11 @@
 
 echo %% uncompress our new working dir copy
 gunzip < a.gz
+
+echo %% check hg cat operation
+hg cat a.gz
+hg cat -d a.gz | gunzip
+mkdir subdir
+cd subdir
+hg -R .. cat ../a.gz
+hg -R .. cat -d ../a.gz | gunzip